Night Walks: Charles Dickens (Penguin Great Ideas)

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Trafalgar Square by Moonlight by Henry Pether, c1865, exemplifies the Romantic portrayal of London at night The UT visits the School of Industry, sponsored by the Stepney Union Workhouse where students attend class for half of the regular school hours and the other half in industrial (vocational) training. He approves of this form of education and cites his reasons

The UT visits a workhouse in Liverpool containing dead and dying soldiers who have returned from India amid terrible conditions onboard the Great Tasmania The UT spends a year of Sundays visiting the ill-attended old churches in the City of London, monuments to another age The UT observes a Temperence Movement rally from his window in Covent Garden. His view on Temperence has always been that there can be use without abuse. Noticing that some of the wagons used in the rally were over-burdening their horses he states the case that all should obstain from using horses, even those who do not misuse them An outdoor cinema projection in Wood Street, Waltham Forest, brings people together in Philipp Ebeling’s image People who inhabited the streets after dark were still popularly assumed to be social outcasts of one kind or another’

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The UT journeys from his Covent Garden lodging to the workhouse at Wapping following a report in The Times in which a police magistrate had said that the workhouse was a disgrace and a shame. There he is given a tour of the house and interviews some of the inmates there. London Night, a book of photogravures by Harold Burdekin and John Morrison published in 1934, depicts the capital in inky, unsettling darkness The shabbiness of our English capital, as compared with Paris, Bordeaux, Frankfort, Milan, Geneva—almost any important town on the continent of Europe—I find very striking after an absence of any duration in foreign parts. London is shabby in contrast with Edinburgh, with Aberdeen, with Exeter, with Liverpool, with a bright little town like Bury St. Edmunds. London is shabby in contrast with New York, with Boston, with Philadelphia ( Uncommercial Traveller, p. 250). The UT recalls, fondly and otherwise, the birthday celebrations he has attended, both his own and others...including Shakespeare's

The month was March, and the weather damp, cloudy, and cold. The sun not rising before half-past five, the night perspective looked sufficiently long at half-past twelve: which was about my time for confronting it. All about him,' said the very queer small boy. 'I am old (I am nine), and I read all sorts of books. But DO let us stop at the top of the hill, and look at the house there, if you please!'

resisting the urge to stop into the fine art galleries and new restaurants at Somerset House, a mansion complex that once housed the Navy